Exclusive: Firm that worked on past Reflecting Pool renovation passed on Trump project after deeming it 'unfeasible'

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.

Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.

According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/reflecting-pool-firm-renovation-unfeasible

[not fooled]

1. Competent, responsible companies pass on donnie's fantasies

Smartest move that company ever (didn't) make--getting sucked into the morass of stupidity generated by this regime.

[Figarosmom]

2. So he got this greenwater guy because he was

Sitting in the dining room in maralago loudly complaining no one will do what he wants on the reflecting pool. And that other con artist was likely sitting in the dining room hearing g it and stood up and said, " I'll do it" anything for you, Mr president "

[Botany]

3. Kind of like all the military and intelligence experts that told Trump that starting a war with Iran was a bad ..

… idea and that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz and Hegseth fired them. Pool and water experts,
freshwater ecologists, and other experts all warned Trump about defects in his plan but he went ahead
and did it anyway.

[KS Toronado]

4. Stable geniuses don't need or take advise from people who are not as smart.

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